English Language Teaching in India: The Shifting Paradigm by S P Dhanavel

About the book
This book is a collection of author’s creative and practically innovative responses to some of the perennial challenges and changes in the field of English Language Teaching in India. He has made an attempt to cover almost all aspects of English Language Learning (ELL) in this volume: vocabulary, spelling, pronunciation, grammar, discourse, specific language skills, use of technology in learning, non-verbal communication skills, literature in the ELL classroom, and so on. However, the primary and recurrent concern of this volume is to highlight effective motivational strategies for successful learning of English language.


About the author
Dr S P Dhanavel received BA, MA, and MPhil degrees from Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, and PhD from Tripura University, Agartala. Besides, he has a Postgraduate Certificate in the Teaching of English from the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad and a Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education from Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi. Over the years, he has developed a number of acronyms for teaching English to the BE/BTech students of Anna University, thereby developing an innovative approach called The DELTA Approach to English Language Teaching. He integrates his teaching of English with communication skills and soft skills, using a variety of materials from newspapers, magazines, and motivational books. Currently Dr S P Dhanavel is the Professor and Head, Department of English at Anna University Chennai




Table of Contents
1. What is English?
2. English Problems and Indian Solutions
3. Globalization, English Teaching, and Information Technology
4. Technology-Enabled Language Learning
5. The Crux of Teaching English with Technology
6. Quotations for Motivation in the ESL Classroom
7. The Five ‘S’ Approach to Vocabulary Development
8. An Acronym for Teaching the Parts of Speech
9. An Acronym for Sequencing Adjectives
10. The DELTA Approach to ELL
11. The Vowels in Question Words
12. The Pronunciation of ‘X’
13. Technical Speaking
14. A Perspective on Teaching Reading
15. A Deconstructive Reading of John Milton’s “On His Blindness”
16. Teaching Sentence Writing
17. An Integrated Approach to Teaching Writing
18. An Acronym for Teaching Punctuation Marks
19. English, Communication Skills, and Soft Skills
20. A Global Perspective on Soft Skills
21. Review of Learning and Teaching English in India
22. Thinking as a Communication Skill
23. Teaching Non-Verbal Communication Skills
24. An Indian Experiment in English for Specific Purposes (ESP)
Index


Recommendations for the book

“Here is yet another book which demonstrates that Indian English Language Teaching (ELT) has come of age. In the vast ocean of ELT, this book adopts a delightfully different, refreshing perspective. I am sure that this book would prove a motivator for beginners in ELT and an eye-opener for all those interested. The contents, structure as well as organization ensure that this is a 'must' read for every ELT aspirant.”

                     -Dr. V. Saraswathi
                     Consultant, ELT and former Professor of English, Madras University


“In my assessment, the book touches upon all the central topics that have a bearing on the current ELT discourse.”
                                                                     -Dr. Gurumurthy Neelakantan
                                                                      Professor of English, IIT Kanpur